After a few short delays the second day we were able to rendezvous at a strip mall in Dallas, before making way to Amarillo, TX. The route we took had us within a few miles of the Oklahoma border, but we never quite crossed instead taking Highway 87 towards New Mexico's Northeastern corner. There isn't much worth mentioning in West Texas until we passed through Amarillo, and got within a few miles of the New Mexico border. Its around this area where we started to see a few windmill farms, as well as a beautiful sunset. There were some sights I wanted to see in the New Mexico stretch, but we ended up driving through since it was too damn cold to do any sort of primitive camping. The volcano crater and canyon will have to be done at a later date. We are now resting up in a motel about 15 miles north of the New Mexico/Colorado border in a small town off I-25. At the end of the day we drove around 600 miles, which took us about 12 hours. It was a few hours longer since there wasn't as much interstate, as a result the speed limit was <= 70 most of the time.
In the past two days total we have driven about 1200 of the 2500 or so miles that we've planned it will take going to California. Tomorrow, I will continue on I-25 to Northern Colorado up through Denver and into Fort Collins to stay with friend from high school and my cousin, whom has been crashing there. Meanwhile, my buddy who is driving to California with me will head straight to Vail to ski with some more of his fellow U of A buddies.
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